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I have been suspecting that... but having gone through a 63 second earthquake 5.6 last night, loud, shook the entire house and I'm 45 miles from the epicenter... I am feeling as though that this is a combination of fracking in a COMPLEX system (unknown faults) and it is accelerating. I've lived here my entire life and never felt anything like that. I took out earthquake insurance last year because I suspect it is going to grow in intensity. The NGS actually has so little data on Oklahoma since we were NEVER a hot spot.. I wonder just what level of damage is being caused by the fracking coupled with the unknown structures beneath our feet. It has been more than a little frightening.

That's disturbing. We live near the New Madrid fault line (I'm in St. Louis) and it's been a long time since there was a major earthquake. Some say it's long overdue. And now with fracking. I wonder if it's too late for some of that earthquake insurance.

The Mclauglin Group reported that foriegn oil import could change to the USA being an exporter. OH BOY. That's some big oil PR. They have money, (and an earth), to burn. The Koch brothers are unanimous about less taxes, and planning our future for us.

Up until recently, technology wasn't precise enough to be able to capture and record these minutely small earth movements. 1.0 and 2.8 were the Richter scale outliers in a study done in OK near a large fracking operation.

There will be 1 x 10^15 more of these 1.0 to 2.5 earthquakes in the next 100 years. You can CLAIM that it is because of fracking and cause the US to lose more jobs, or you can see that fracking has nothing to do with significant seismic activity.